Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
Emitted particles arrive at the counter with prolonging dead time so that the interarrival times and the lengths of impulses in any dead time are independent but not necessarily identically distributed random variables, and whenever the counter is idle then the following evolution starts from the beginning. For this class of counters we derive the probability laws of the numbers of particles arriving at the counters during their dead times, and the Laplace transform of the cycle, respectively.